TOK Questions: 1) "All of the other Ways of Knowing are controlled by language." What does this statement mean and do you think it is a fair representation of the relationship beween perception, emotion, reason and language?
2)Is it an oversimplification to claim that some Ways of Knowng give us facts while others provide interpretations?
3) "There can be no knowledge without emotion.... until we have felt the force of the knowledge, it is not ours" (adapted from Atnold Bennett). Discuss this vision of the relationship between knowledge and emotion.
4) "Seek simplicity, and distrust it" (Alfred North Whitehead). Is this always good advice for a knower?
5) "In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance" (Henry Miller). Is this true?
Dogma:
Dogma is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization: it is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from. The term derives from Greek δόγμα "that which seems to one, opinion or belief" and that from δοκέω (dokeo), "to think, to suppose, to imagine". The plural is either dogmas or dogmata , from Greek δόγματα.
At the core of the dogma concept is absolutism, infallibility, irrefutability, unquestioned acceptance (among adherents) and anti-skepticism. These concepts typically invoke criticism from moderate and modulated conceptual approaches, and thus "dogma" is often colloqually used to indicate a doctrine which has the problem of claiming absolute truth, when other concepts may be superior.
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." --John Dunne
8 Words Which Have Changed Meanings Ethics Questions Love and the Brain by Helen Fisher Possible Presentation Articles Engineering Drought Resistant Wheat Why Is Food Security Sparking Unrest? Scientist Find Evidence of Large Civilization in AmazonSelling Genetically Modified Salmon to Human ConsumersFDA Says Science Around Salmon UnsatisfactoryHow 'Twilight" and Other Dark Fiction Affects Teenage BrainsPerception and How the Media Frames Science StoriesHow Women Musicians Dress Alters the Perception of the Way They PlayReasoning Away Unwelcomed Scientific Research DataThe Flexibility of Science DataGreenpeace Boards Chevron ShipHundreds of Acres to be Added to Oregon CoastAn Intimate Look at ChinaWhen Testosterone & Corporate Deals MergeProtect Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchNew Drugs Offer Hope for MS PRIVACY What Google Knows About YouGoogle CEO: Online Anonymity DangerousGoogle CEO Advises You to Change Your NameGoogle Street View Halted in Czech Republic SCIENCE & RELIGION Mystery and EvidenceOn Richard Dawkins's AtheismPhilosophy and Faith
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Existentialism
TED.com
Lateral Thinking Puzzles:
Brain Food
Lateral Thinking Links
More Puzzles
Logicall Fallacies:
List of Logical Fallacies from Philosophical Society
Logical Fallaciea and the Art of Debate
Fallacy Files Links
Informal Fallacies
Esref Armagan and His Art
Hitler Gets HL Math Score
Possible Presentation Topic Articles:
Brain Activity Found in Vegetative State Patient
Communicating with the Unconcious Video
Homosexuals in the Army
Colin Powell Supports Ending Ban on Homosexuals in Military
How Facebook Ruins Friendships
Why Current Thinking About Autism is Completely Wrong
Eager Students Fall Prey to Apartheid's Legacy
Tuna Town in Japan & Diminishing FIsh Population
U.S. Senator Proposes New Banking Regulatory Agency
Big Oil Comapanies Go Green
Assisted Suicide
Locked In Syndrome: Jean Dominique Bauby
How the Railroads Took Control of Time
Where Will Synthetic Biology Lead Us?
Getting Real About Stress
A Digital After Life
Facial Recognition and Privacy Concerns
Morals without God
Open Defecation: How Sanitation can Save the World
Turn Back the Hands of Time: Our Rush to Rush
Data Call Into Question HIV Study Results
Statisticians Reject Global Cooling
DNA and Human Races
The Religion of Thin
Why We Can't Remember Who We've Told What
Twitter: From Tweet to Hypertextual Consciousness
Solomon Asch
Gestalt Psychology
What is Happiness?What Makes Us Happy Video
Nancy Etcoff Science of Happiness
Stanley Milgram Experiment
Ethics Home Page Santa Clara University
Human Science Topics for Presentations
Racial Profiling
Profiling, pick a specific type
Discrimination: Age, Disabilities, Ethnic, Race, Gender
Economic Policy (see Mr. Harvey)
Economics: Does a company deserve a fair return on investment in R & D, i.e. HIV drugs?
Air Crashes: Connection Between Culture (country) and Cashes
Consumerism: Link on Consumerism
Video Game Violence: Article of Video Game ViolenceReality of Video Game Violence
Sociology: Sociology Topics Link
Science Articles:
Freeman Dyson on Climate Change
Darwin's Missing Evidence
Evolution of the Mind & Four Fallacies of Psychology
Skeptics Take on Public Misunderstanding of Darwin
Could Cleaning Up Air Pollution Speed Up Global Warming
Retrofitting Old Buildings to Make Them Green
The Placebo Effect
Why Don't babies Talk Like Adults?
Sewage Plants Creating Super Bugs
Rise in Malaria & Drug Resistance Tied to Climate Change
Putting Evolution to Everyday Use
Without the Moon Would There be Life on Earth?
Illusions in Motion: The Power of Symmetry
Science: Miller-Urey Experiment
Miller-Urey at Duke
Miller-Urey at Wikipedia
Miller-Urey at PBS
Primordial Soup at Astrobiology Magazine
More Miller-Urey
TOK Questions:
1) "All of the other Ways of Knowing are controlled by language." What does this statement mean and do you think it is a fair representation of the relationship beween perception, emotion, reason and language?
2)Is it an oversimplification to claim that some Ways of Knowng give us facts while others provide interpretations?
3) "There can be no knowledge without emotion.... until we have felt the force of the knowledge, it is not ours" (adapted from Atnold Bennett). Discuss this vision of the relationship between knowledge and emotion.
4) "Seek simplicity, and distrust it" (Alfred North Whitehead). Is this always good advice for a knower?
5) "In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance" (Henry Miller). Is this true?
Dogma:
Dogma is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization: it is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from. The term derives from Greek δόγμα "that which seems to one, opinion or belief" and that from δοκέω (dokeo), "to think, to suppose, to imagine". The plural is either dogmas or dogmata , from Greek δόγματα.
At the core of the dogma concept is absolutism, infallibility, irrefutability, unquestioned acceptance (among adherents) and anti-skepticism. These concepts typically invoke criticism from moderate and modulated conceptual approaches, and thus "dogma" is often colloqually used to indicate a doctrine which has the problem of claiming absolute truth, when other concepts may be superior.
Definition Link--Wikipedia
Project Implicit
Logic Problems:
Expand Your Mind
Puzzles.com
Logic Problems Page
Logic Games.com
Descartes Video:
Descrates' Cogito Video
Syllogism:
Syllogism from Wikipedia
Conditional Syllogism
Categorical Syllogism
Disjunctive Syllogism
Set Theory
Contrast Principle
Love and the Brain:
The Brain in Love by Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher: Links to Articles
MRI: Love and the Brain
How Do I Love Thee
The Man with No Short-Term Memory:
You Tube--Man Without Memory, Clive Wearing
Theorists, Philosophers, & Writers
Paradigm:
Paradigm at Wikipedia
Thomas Kuhn & Paradigm Shifts:
Kuhn's Use of Paradigm Shift
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Cognitvism:
Cognitivism at Learning Theories
Cognitive Psychology
Plato Links:
Chariot Analogy
Plato from Wikipedia
Stoicism Links:
Stoicism from Stanford University
Stoicism from WIkipedia
Emotion Links:
Emotional Intelligence Test
Mind in the Eyes Test
Sense Perception Links:
Sandlot Science Optical Illusions
Perception Puzzles
Parthenon Illusions--You Tube
Gestalt Effects & Gestalt Theory of Psychology:
Wikipedia Gestalt
Mistranslations:
Amusing Mistranslations
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies,
one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language;
and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a
sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come:
so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the
door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself, entire of itself every
man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by
the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor
of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am
involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it
tolls for thee."
--John Dunne